San Diego celebrity chef Brian Malarkey and two chefs from his fabric-inspired local restaurants will be cooking behind the scenes at a 2013 James Beard Foundation awards dinner in May in New York City.

The Book, Broadcast & Journalism Awards will be held May 3 at New York's Gotham Hall. Malarkey has been tapped to prepare the dinner with chefs from some of his Fabric of Social Dining restaurants, including Amanda Baumgarten of Herringbone in La Jolla and Anthony Sinsay of Burlap in Del Mar Heights.

The media awards dinner is the first of two major culinary events hosted by the Beard Foundation in early May. On May 6, the 2013 Beard Foundation Awards will be held at Lincoln Center with a who's who of America's leading chefs in the kitchen, including former Rancho Bernardo Inn chef Gavin Kaysen, now of Cafe Boulud.